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Pickons Soentinel-JournalPUBRZMB1D EVRYI THURSDAY MORNING.-BYThe Sontinel-3ournal Company.T'OMPSON & RicuiE. InoPS.J. L. . 'I'0M I'ON. EDTOn.Snbaoriptiou $1.00 Per Anuum.Advertising Rates ReronuableEntored at PckeAns rustomeo as Second CInie.Mall MatterPICKENS, S. C.:TH URSDAY, MARCH 1% 1908.Squibs from the Columbia State.The lhop-the-loop woman whowas fatally shot while pouringa cup of tea, brings to mind thesteeple-jack who was killed inDecember by slipping from adoor step and striking the backof his head on the sidewalk.Some time ago when GeneralLeonard Wood was ill, he wasgiven leave to come home almost indefinitely for medicaltreatment. Now a surgeon isdetailed to go out to meet himand take charge of him in European sanatoriums.Chicago papers say that thereis some talk of sending E. H.Harriman as a delegate to theRepublican convention to beheld there. Well, if Harrimangocs, there will be no danger ofa split in the lparty-not withthis professional merger present."A man named Tack who wasdefeated for a, public office atHarrisburg, Pa., the other day,is reported to have abandonedpolitics in disgust. This is tothe point all right," says theScenectady Gazette. Probablygot mad because he got stuck.Some autoists are continuingthe work of making the motorcar popular. In the vicinity ofBrooklyn a car knocked down awoman and broke one of herlegs; biut the two women in thenmachoie ro.se' to tihe occasion.laughed at the discolfiture oftlir victim, and kept on laughin" ierril y unitil the car distanced tihe policeliman who chased it on a bicycle.It; has bee.n said often thatTaft played the role of Cupid onhis famous trip to the Philippines; but he seems to haveplayed all sorts of ai jo!ier. Say'sa writer in the N. Y. Herald:''The editor of the HartfordCeurant, who was ant ant i-Taftman mun hel nuo iiale a trip1 to theOccident in comtpany~ with thesecretary of war, is thorou~ghlyconvinced that every declegatefronm Connectient will vote forTaft. This edlitor has all th..zeal of a new recruit.''IHow sweetly a man mustsleep) in the grave that he hasleft behmnd a name that sha'lendur: f0or y'ears in connectionwvithi a "'yellow dog'' fund tha{was~ ised by insurance conmranies~ for the purposes Of briberyand corruiption! Such is th~ebrand of fame wvon by theo late"Andy"' lHamilton, whose dea t Ihhas removed one of the mostconspicuous characters conn~eciedi with the recent insurancescandals. '"To live in hearts weleave behind, is not to die."'To' all travelers on that weT~llknown artery of connnerce, the"C. & G.,'" the followving paragraph from the Anderson Mailis enthusiastically reconmm ended: "H-ow would it do to allowthe Southern railway to chargethree I cents a mile to ride onCapt. Billy Smith's trains andtwo and a half cents a mile onall other trains? It Is surelyworth an extra half a cent amile to passe ngers to be t n-IeiCapt. Smith's care." Capt.Billy's passengers hope to -beriding on his trains for at leasta half century more.Salmagundi.Taturns, a negro town of 600inhabitants, in Carter county,Okla., doesn't sel! any town lotsto whites or Indians. Taturnshas colored preacher.. teachers,sawinillers, cotton ginners, merchants, and some retired capitalists, all negroes.Maggie Long, colored. aged 37,wife of Mike Long, in ~Caldwelltownship, gave birth on Saturday to her fourteenth child.Eleven of the fourteen are stillliving. There are no twinsamong them.-[Newberry Observer.There is another difference.Abe Lincoln split rails to buildhis fences. Theodore Rooseveltmerely rails to build his.-[Louisville Courier-Journal.Attorney-G-eneral Jackson, ofNew York state, conmnentingon his experience when investigating embarrassed banks, says:"I never before met so manymen who ought to be in jail.''Senator Clay was real politeto those female suffragists whocalled on him the other day......Why not nominate Bob Evansfor president? He at leasthas no objectionable politicalrecord......They are making thedirt fly" is the news from Panama. And there seems to beplenty of dirt there......A Mexican bank was robbed of $300,000.But a Mexican dollar is worthonly fifty ceats, so the banksaved $150,000 on the deal.-[Anderson Mail.A Vermont -woman has hadthis inscription placed on her deceased husband's tombstone"'Rest in Pleace-until we meetagain.''Dickens lef t an estate of $1CO,030, th e resut, 1 of h1 is writings.The thimble was at first wonon the thumb, and was calleI"thumb-bell."MN-arried men of Belgium havctwo votes; andi thle single onhesonly one. Priests andl som(other privileged persons havethree.The corporat ion of the City ojLonde n will confer the freedonof the city oni Florence Nightingale, who is no0w inl her (eigthyninth year.Representatives Payne, D~alzelI and Tawney never appea1in the House without a red car.nation in th ie buttonhole.Miss Anne Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan's daughter, an(other altruistic wonmen, are leading a national movement to improve the condition of workingwomenci and nmen in the big citiesA very large part of the citizenshiip of South Carolina wilrun for otlice this summer-JBamberg Hlerald.That wasn't a (old waveThat was the Fairbanks boonmoving east. --[Phila. NorthAmerican."'The office should seek thman, you knowv." "'That's alright," replied the avowed aspirant, but I gave it a fai1chance and it seemed diffident.'-[Washington Star.FLonida-The Big and the BeauiilLAKE WEm, FLJA., Mar. 1.Eo. SmerrINELI:-I am sendingyou a short description of Flor.ida, which I trust you will prinmin your paper. A geatn nmn3ANDWere nevstock of tl41)PLOWSTOCKSCarmicalDistributPLANTE]TURN PL-everythiPickens People have been iand will be glad to readFlorida is having the cospell of weather at rres n ' thhas had sice the big frin '95. Respectfully,Essue E. EARTFlorida has beauty. Tihtno end( to her beauty. "'Itstops vwaving like a sea;" itsbreezes laved and lashed lbybrIeakers that sing their songkeep their motion night andits bright skies arched abovvalleys that are bright in 1floral beauty; its cities and ging towns, w~her~e steam,tricity, brain force and artture are working their wonfor the Floridians as for otin this, our day of prof.and fresh discovery in allfields of human thoughtaction-all -these things aiFlorida, and we speak twhen we say there is no orher beauty.Ponce de Leon of oldenicame to this favored land,ing a fountain of youthvigor. It ip; not miythical arI a' ulous origin, bt 16 it sand continual, flowing fheart to heart. The phy;peace can only be realb~y a visit here. The sccares of life are laid aside,matchless natural beauty ofand climate to those corfrom less favored lands atseason have sonme insight aiwhat the Etate of Florida i:to "what wvonders God Iwrought'' from the life-gisoil and air of His marve"footstool."- Th air is full of music, s<of birds, that bear us back t'rose of life, of youth, nn/T-0LTOOLS[mpleme-&a:r so"-much in demand as now. Wee best goods of this we can buy.PLOW All shapes and sizes. thiSTEEL thin half shovels, sc,cents per Bthmhal shovels, etc.ound base Bull-tongue shSteel Beam Circle-footWook Beam Circle Foot{ Wood Beam Ratchet FootAvery's "Sambo" the best mader This is the best Distributor onI the market. Simple and dur>rs able: light and easy to handle.The flow of fertilizer is where[you can always see it.r Griffin DiscZS Chattanoo-a PlanterCarmical Combined-"Ledbetter One-Seed",OWS: All sizes and kinds. Plow (ng you need in plow goods. See oiIORE &MIAUere, I mingle with many from all parts sit -'seeking recreation, pleasure anddest rest is a variy o(f emf iories, a tat it diary of in t'rlacing communioneeze that treads along our pathway,filling the grottos, a place to restE. and to lingor.T~here is a saying that who-tr~ is ever gets Florida sand in their>ine- shoes, however far they maysea- wander, they will return again. Ithle Perhaps the proverh has its 'jand(~ origin ini the fact that few ever tlay; visit~ this sunny, flower land te its without experiencing a hannt-eheir ing desire to return and1 once <1o-more enjoy the commringlingr of iel1c.- song and zephyr and sunslin I(. and fragrance of Florida.ders ~ - ------- rhers The Athens Banner very apt;rcss ly says: '"The investigration by cthe congress of the question of peon- rand age in the south, to be madle at 1-ei the request of Mr. Williams, of truly Mississippi, ought to develop the '(id to facts in the case and stop manyslanders that are being Uttered Itlays about this sectionl of the coun('(k- try. All this talking about pe-'tand ionage and white slavery in the r(1 of south is being (done ini order lo r'real stop immigration in this section. armThe foreign immigrants ar~e isical pumped full of this nonsense in nize~d the hope that they may be keptradid from coming~ south. It has been cthe very detrimental to the southsoil and the time has arrived for it tiing to be stopped in an authoritative Ithis manner.''s to ~3, as! Fired at Pickens County Officers.iath A party of federal and count y riing officer's from Pickens were in the clot s city yesterday and held a conferen ce with the authorities in gmngs regard to the proposed capture of r'the John Burgess, a white man, b~I to who, it is alleedatteimptd on ighave a large:k andD)oters,S 1. 251.10Price:$4.506.5010.50"012.50xears, Harness-lhne.DIhoof, Federal Deputy Alexa-mier an11d Constable Allgood ihec upper part. of Pickens countyueCSday, whenl they -were 11yng to arrest him.It is said that Bur11gess -wasvanted on a chargse of violingoLewik asaditmdtngwtess hetw ffcrvett3i os n onhave it ai largeangthivooadfo awidwithtears th odie ili hThPoficerso h w on$4.50 oigal n hi;as, wHchfoless h rsier a onticer waoo injrdhe uipe Jennngs of Pickens uto'untdy, was mon the wiersrh o aeres itecynonn ection wai tht cae.-[resnvll walieryhisnyfles aitinalot'reatnessis ouead abounhierson aitin h world l tor yiscovear it.~dI 1L aehereqmay b abitle to callowteigt ino of huseband getfsoat, lihen howth theg lnreen.--[Chisca es.othv-osfomawnowi h